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Thomas Wilmer Dewing  American  1851 -1938
Born: Boston, Massachusetts, United States 
Died: New York, New York, United States 
Active: New York, New York  
Studied: School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 
Academie Julien, Paris 1876 - 1879
Munich 1876-1879
Instructors: Frank Duveneck 
Exhibited: National Academy of Design 1879
Examples of Work: Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts 
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo 
Art Institute of Chicago 
Brooklyn Museum of Art 
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh 
Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC 
Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 
Musee d'Orsay, Paris 
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence 
St. Louis Art Museum 
Specialty: Painter
Instructor
Style/School: The Ten
Tonalist
Impressionism
Subjects Known For: Women
Figural
Memberships: National Academy of Design ANA 1887; NA 1888
National Institute of Arts and Letters 
Ten American Painters 
Teaching Positions: Art Students League, New York City 
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Thomas Dewing was born in 1851. He apprenticed in a lithography shop before receiving formal art training in Boston in 1865 and Academie Julian in 1876-77. By 1880, Dewing established a studio in New York City and married the artist Maria Oakey. Together they painted in the East Hamptons, while Dew... (More)

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